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Interest Ancient forest stands in wet toe-slope positions support rich wet-temperate rainforest canopy cyanolichen communities, including species such as Lobaria scrobiculata (middle) and Lobaria pulmonaria. Heritage sites. The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia may serve as a valuable role model, with a network of widely dispersed stands having been given a common World Heritage site listing. The growing cultural values associated with very old wet cedar stands in the upper Fraser can be seen at the Ancient Forest trail, east of Prince George. The trail attracted almost 10,000 visitors in 2009, on a site that was basically unknown three years earlier. Visitor comments are evocative: “I’ve lived in Prince George for 36 years and never knew this place existed!! Amazing to see such a spectacle with my friends.” (Prince George); “I thought I walked through a shrine of trees expressing eternity. What a wonderful trail!” (Germany); “A truly beautiful and sacred spot on the globe, I sincerely hope we are successful in preserving this wilderness” (Austria). Very old wet cedar stands in the upper Fraser must now be regarded in a new light. Like archaeological sites, each remaining stand has been mapped. Also, like archaeological sites, once disturbed, their defining biological and cultural values are essentially lost, at least on any meaningful human time-scale. They simultaneously represent a forestry resource, an internationally significant biodiversity repository and a major cultural legacy. In today’s world global recognition of these legacy values is a potent economic tool. Managed properly, it can encourage the development of new economies in BC’s central-interior region. 3 Darwyn Coxson is a professor in the Ecosystem Science and Management Program at the University of Northern British Columbia. A major theme of his research examines conservation biology of wet temperate rainforests in BC and worldwide. He is a co-author of the soon to be released UBC Press book entitled British Columbia’s Inland Rainforest: Ecology, Conservation, and Management. For further information see: http://wetbelt.unbc.ca/biography-coxson.htm Growth of ancient western redcedars, shown here from alongside the Ancient Forest Trail near Dome Creek, is supported in only a few remaining locations in the upper Fraser River watershed. 24 BC FOREST PROFESSIONAL | may - june 2010 Photo: Darwyn Coxson Photo: Darwyn Coxson Photo: Darwyn Coxson
OLD & NEW article references from Page 19 British Columbia Forest Resources Commission. 1991. The Future of Our Forests, a.L. (Sandy) Peel, Chairman. Victoria, BC. p. 97. Ranking: 4.5 out of 5 cones BC ministry of Forests and Range 2006. agreements with First nations. BC ministry of Forests and Range, aboriginal affairs Branch, Victoria BC. accessed at: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/haa.Fn_agreements.htm BC ministry of Forests and Range 2007. Status of Community Forests. BC ministry of Forests and Range, Victoria BC. accessed at: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hth/community/reports.htm may - june 2010 | BC FOREST PROFESSIONAL By Richard Somerset Mackie SonoNis Press. 2009 Book Review Mountain Timber The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains 320 pp, 350+ b/w photos & maps ISBNs: 978-1-55039-171-8 and 1-55039-171-2 This profusely illustrated sequel to the author’s earlier book, Island Timber, tells the story of the Comox Logging Company through the first half of the last century. Three threads are intimately interwoven: developments in timber harvesting as logging moved from easily-accessible valley bottom lands to smaller timber on more challenging adjacent slopes; the lives of loggers and their families; and, a lesser topic, the inner workings of the company. A long introduction is, in effect, a précis of the book with amplification in subsequent chapters fleshed out by instructive and entertaining side bars which recount personal reminiscences and events, including the 1939-45 war years. This results, perhaps inevitably, in some repetition, and the occasional lists of names will be of real interest only to readers with a personal stake in this region of Vancouver Island. The several diagrams and maps are clear and informative although some maps lack a direction arrow. Someone ought to have told the author or editor that Douglas-fir should be hyphenated. Nevertheless, this very readable account is a valuable addition to the literature on BC’s forest industry, its history and changing logging technology through the years 1910 to 1950. I look forward to the third volume of the promised trilogy. Reviewed by Roy Strang, RPF (Ret) mahood, I., and K. Drushka. 1990. Three men and a Forester. Harbour Press. Saastamoinen, O. 1999. Forest Policies, access Rights and non-wood Forest Products in northern europe. unasylva 50: no 198. FaO Rome. Sloan, G. 1945. Public Inquiries act - Report of the Commissioner relating to The Forest Resources of British Columbia. 25
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